FAQs: More Questions

Have more questions about Global Tea Hut? Get the answer here or contact us for more info.

Can I send Global Tea Hut as a gift?

Absolutely! We offer a 3-month gift subscription. You make a one-time payment of $50 to $175 and we send three months of Global Tea Hut to someone you love. (Higher donations further support our free tea center.) Your gift recipient will get a notecard in their first month’s envelope explaining what Global Tea Hut is and who the gift is from, and then they will get a note in their last envelope thanking them for being a part of our tea community for three months and letting them know how to resubscribe if they so desire.

Are you on Facebook and Twitter?

Yup. On Facebook, we post extra photos and news. On Twitter, we talk more about the day-to-day life at our free tea center in Taiwan.

Can I visit your tea center in Taiwan?

Yes, our tea center is open to all who wish to drink tea here. You can learn more on the Tea Sage Hut site.

Who do I ask if I have more questions?

You can email us. For deeper questions, you can gaze into your tea bowl and find the truth Tea has to offer...

Light Meets Life Puerh Cakes

Last year, we started an annual tradition--a fundraising drive for our new tea center in Taiwan. The new tea center is called Light Meets Life. Similar to our current center (Tea Sage Hut), Light Meets Life is a nonprofit, donation-run center devoted to sharing the spirit and wisdom of tea with guests from around the world.

Anyway, more about the tea! In spring of 2013, we pressed three kinds of organic puerh cakes. Two were organic sheng puerh teas: one from Ailao Mountain and the other from Wuliang Mountain. And the third cake was an organic shou puerh pressed with organic "snow chrysanthemums"--a special kind of red chrysanthemum that blossoms out of the snow high on the Tibetan Plateau. The first two cakes are great for drinking now or for aging, and the third is a warming tea that we recommend enjoying in wintertime. For more info on each one, check out the July issue of Global Tea Hut, available to read for free here on our website.

Next month, we'll continue this tradition by traveling to Yunnan to press a new batch of organic puerh cakes as a Light Meets Life fundraiser. Exciting! In the meantime, we still have a few (very limited amount) cakes from last year left. If you're interested in donating toward the construction of Light Meets Life (and getting some amazing puerh in the process), contact us! globalteahut @ gmail . com

Visiting Taiwan

One of the really amazing things about Global Tea Hut is how much it supports our tea center in Taiwan. At the tea center (which is called Tea Sage Hut), we work on a lot of different projects, such as mailing out Global Tea Hut each month, studying tea, serving tea for free to passersby and promoting organic tea. And one of our major activities here is hosting hundreds of tea lovers each year.

Right now, we're hosting two guests from Russia (one of whom helps run a sister center in Moscow and who is pictured here), a guest from Toronto who just recently fell in love with Global Tea Hut and Petr Novak, a Czech potter with great tea spirit who has supported what we do here for a long time through his craft.

Guests at Tea Sage Hut have the opportunity to participate in many tea sessions, to hand-roll their own tea, to brew side-handle pot tea, bowl tea and gong fu tea, to hear lectures on tea and related topics, to visit tea and tea ware shops and much, much more.

If you're interested in visiting us, check out the experiences of other visitors and contact us for more information. We hope to share tea with you here sometime!